Archive for September, 2009

To be a millionaire

At any age being able to say this is great. It summarizes many of my thoughts…. Power of Money…by Adam Khoo   (Singapore’s youngest millionaire at 26 yrs.) Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and [...]

Why do people retire?

There are many people I know who are contemplating retirement 5-15 years before they HAVE to retire. When I ask them WHY do they want to retire, these are the normal answers that I get: 1. Have enough money. However there are a few people who say they have ‘enough’. Then I calculate how much [...]

Taxation: Progressive or Regressive?

Indian elite (with whom I deal) is an amazing lot. I frankly do not know about people in other countries, so let me speak for Indians alone. We like to complain about – poor service of trains, poor roads, corruption, high taxation, poor policing, poor state machinery, pathetic infrastrucutre in general, fall in the education [...]

Vijayadashmi / Dussehra story…

this post was done on Vijayadasmi day..it is worth repeating..will also play it on Vijayadasmi day…for those who missed No this story is not about Durga..it is about a friend named Sandeep. Sandeep was a classmate in Fatima High School at Kirol, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar, Mumbai. When I was in class 6, Sandeep was in class [...]

Changing Investment Strategy

THERE are two relevant quotes that I came across: George Bernard Shaw once said, “Whenever I go to my tailor, he measures me up”. John Maynard Keynes, the economist, once quipped when he was accused of inconsistency: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” Risk management is all about [...]

Facts about solar power: Source SolarAid

Once in a while at least we should look to helping others. Like in an old Hindi movie Amar Prem Rajesh Khanna tells the villian “Even animals look up while eating, as if thanking God for the food that it has got”. As human beings let us do our bit. There is an organisation (UK [...]